INTRODUCTION
This project serves as an exploration of possible interactions between tool use, diet, social groupings and other variables, and is far from comprehensive. Future work should consider the role of resource distribution and perhaps predation risk, among other factors.
METHODS
The data was procured.
ANALYSIS
CARNIVORY ACROSS PRIMATES
Watts (2020) reviewed meat eating across primates.
## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'prey'. You can override using the
## `.groups` argument.| prey | haplorrhini | strepsirrhini |
|---|---|---|
| amphibia | 47 | 3 |
| aves | 147 | 13 |
| mammalia | 156 | 4 |
| squamata | 65 | 10 |
| teleostei | 13 | 0 |
| vertebrata | 3 | 0 |
TOOL USE ACROSS PRIMATES
## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'use_tools'. You can override using the
## `.groups` argument.| use_tools | haplorrhini | strepsirrhini |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 131 | 45 |
| 1 | 37 | 0 |
ANOVA
REFERENCES
DeCasien, A. R., Trujillo, A. E., Janiak, M. C., Harshaw, E. P., Caes, Z. N., Galindo, G. A., … & Higham, J. P. (2022). Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-10.
Watts, D. P. (2020). Meat eating by nonhuman primates: a review and synthesis. Journal of human evolution, 149, 102882.